History, 19th Century

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 17th Century Variola Virus Reveals the Recent History of Smallpox. 
  • A brief history of psychiatric classification. From the ancients to DSM-IV. 
  • A brief history of research synthesis 
  • A brief history of surgery for peripheral nerve sheath tumors. 
  • A completely efficient life. Francis Henry Williams, MD, pioneer radiologist. 
  • A history of orthotopic heart transplantation. 
  • A stranger to our camps: Typhus in American history. 
  • An eclectic history of peripheral nerve surgery. 
  • An eclectic review of the history of peripheral nerve surgery. 
  • Angiokeratoma of Fordyce. 
  • Applications and societal benefits of plastics. 
  • Babinski's sign in medieval, Renaissance, and baroque art. 
  • Battle of the Bulge: Aortic Aneurysm Management From Early Modernity to the Present. 
  • Bayard Holmes (1852-1924) and Henry Cotton (1869-1933): Surgeon-psychiatrists and their tragic quest to cure schizophrenia. 
  • Bovine thrombin: history, use, and risk in the surgical patient. 
  • Charcot's joint. 
  • Cholera in Haiti and other Caribbean regions, 19th century. 
  • Commentary: Sir Arthur Mitchell--pioneer of psychiatric epidemiology and of community care. 
  • Community management of mental disorders in antebellum America. 
  • Creating a segregated medical profession: African American physicians and organized medicine, 1846-1910. 
  • Current evidence and clinical implications of aspirin resistance. 
  • Development and Evolution of Self-Retaining Retractors in Surgery: The Example of the Bookwalter Retractor. 
  • Developmental psychopathology and public health: past, present, and future. 
  • Did James A. Garfield die of cholecystitis? Revisiting the autopsy of the 20th president of the United States. 
  • Did the crew of the submarine H.L. Hunley suffocate? 
  • Dr. Trevelyan and Mr. Treves: Sherlock Holmes and the Elephant Man. 
  • Dupuytren's contracture. 
  • Early descriptions of aortic regurgitation. 
  • Early descriptions of aortic valve stenosis. 
  • Edoardo Bassini (1844-1924): father of modern-day hernia surgery. 
  • Electroneuroprostheses: past and present uses in man. 
  • Emergence of rheumatic fever in the nineteenth century. 
  • Ergot, the "jerks," and revivals. 
  • Ergotamine and dihydroergotamine: history, pharmacology, and efficacy. 
  • Florence Nightingale and the India sanitary reforms. 
  • From dietary glucose to liver glycogen: the full circle round. 
  • Gull's disease. 
  • Historical perspectives of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery: Evarts A. Graham (1883-1957). 
  • History of orthopaedic education. 
  • History of respiratory illness at the U.S. Naval Academy. 
  • History of the Department of Neurosurgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. 
  • History of the recurrent laryngeal nerve: from Galen to Lahey. 
  • Hyperbaric oxygen therapy: from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. 
  • Intergenerational fertility among Hispanic women: new evidence of immigrant assimilation. 
  • Introduction: peripheral nerve surgery--biology, entrapment, and injuries. 
  • Julia Rush's diary: coping with loss in the early nineteenth century. 
  • Lapicque's 1907 paper: from frogs to integrate-and-fire. 
  • Latin America and the challenge of globalizing the history of sexuality. 
  • Lessons from the past. 
  • Lister's ligatures. 
  • Madness and medicine: trends in American medical therapeutics for insanity, 1820-1860. 
  • Marie's disease. 
  • Mental illness in U.S. Presidents between 1776 and 1974: a review of biographical sources. 
  • Nervenkitt: notes on the history of the concept of neuroglia. 
  • Nonoperative treatment of intussusception: historical perspective. 
  • Osler and Ernulf's curse. 
  • Particle therapy and treatment of cancer. 
  • Pediatrics practice at Mayo Clinic - a historical vignette. 
  • Popliteal artery aneurysms. Past and present. 
  • Prevalence of major eye diseases among US Civil War veterans, 1890-1910. 
  • Progress in medical information management. Systematized nomenclature of medicine (SNOMED). 
  • Psychiatry and social values: the American Psychiatric Association and immigration restriction, 1880-1930. 
  • Psychologic factors in the development of complex regional pain syndrome: history, myth, and evidence. 
  • Quarantine, isolation, and cohorting: from cholera to Klebsiella. 
  • Racial disparities in diabetes a century ago: evidence from the pension files of US Civil War veterans. 
  • Ralph Albert Blakelock (1847-1919): Psychiatric hospitalization and the abduction of an American landscape artist. 
  • Reconstructing Holocene fire history in a southern Appalachian forest using soil charcoal. 
  • Reconstructing genome evolution in historic samples of the Irish potato famine pathogen. 
  • Religion and medicine I: historical background and reasons for separation. 
  • Richard Dadd and the Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke. 
  • Richard Kirwan's phlogiston theory: its success and fate. 
  • Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925). 
  • Senator Royal Copeland. The medical and political career of a homeopathic physician. 
  • Sister (Mary?) Joseph's node. 
  • Steep increase in best-practice cohort life expectancy. 
  • Telemedicine: climate change and mosquito-borne disease: a historical perspective. 
  • The Evolution of the Journal Club: From Osler to Twitter. 
  • The Jeremiah Metzger lecture: new additions to the toolbox for global malaria eradication. 
  • The North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, Dr. Clyde Henry Donnell, and the health education of blacks. 
  • The X-ray enters the hospital. 
  • The art of observation: William Osler and the method of Zadig. 
  • The assistant medical officer in Sri Lanka: mid-level health worker in decline. 
  • The evolution of the management of penetrating wounds of the heart. 
  • The evolution of witchcraft and the meaning of healing in colonial Andean society. 
  • The first oral mucosal graft urethroplasty was carried out in the 19th century: the pioneering experience of Kirill Sapezhko (1857-1928). 
  • The history of the combined supra- and infratentorial approach to the petroclival region. 
  • The incubator and the medical discovery of the premature infant. 
  • The incubator controversy: pediatricians and the origins of premature infant technology in the United States, 1890 to 1910. 
  • The names and faces of medicine. Angle of Louis. 
  • The new light: discovery and introduction of the X-ray. 
  • The origin and evolution of neuroendoscopy. 
  • The pertussis vaccine controversy in Great Britain, 1974-1986. 
  • The population ecology and social behaviour of taxonomists. 
  • The provision of public goods under Islamic law: origins, impact, and limitations of the waqf system. 
  • The right place at the wrong time: historical perspective of the relation of the thymus gland and pediatric radiology. 
  • Uncovering the History of Operating Room Attire through Photographs. 
  • Vodou and history. 
  • Women and the invention of well child care. 
  • X-rays at the bar, 1896-1910. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Humphreys, Margaret Ellen, Josiah Charles Trent Professor of the History of Medicine, in the School of Medicine, Duke Science & Society
  • Rendleman, Vivien, Student, History
  • Shapiro, Karin, Associate Professor of the Practice in the Department of African and African American Studies, African and African American Studies
  • Sigal, Peter, Professor in the Department of History, History
  • Yancy Jr., William Samuel, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine